Month: May 2025

The custody rates released by BOCSAR today raise serious concerns about how the NSW Government is approaching its own commitments to reducing Aboriginal overincarceration and overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the child protection system. We have seen divergent trends of sentencing between convictions (decreasing) and remand (increasing) of Aboriginal people for some time in NSW […]

The current Indigenous policy crisis is, I think, without any doubt at its lowest point in decades. A complete rethink is required, with a positive suggestion to go forward. Where we are now The Indigenous Affairs arena has become a political play toy of governments and commentators, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike. The current policy efforts […]